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Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 Profile picture
@Nicolascole77
Sep 23, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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My 6th book is officially live!

500 pages of poems and journals kept on my phone over the course of 18 months building my first company.

The conclusion?

20+ employees, 80+ clients, and millions in revenue, I realized I wasn't happy.

This book captures that slow realization.
You can grab a copy here:

amazon.com/gp/product/173…

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John Grisham.

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The key?

His tightly controlled writing environment (down to the coffee he drinks):
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